J.P. Morgan, the dominant figure in American…
October 1902 CE
He is deeply involved in this strike as well: his interests include the Reading Railroad, one of the largest employers of miners.
He had installed George Baer, who speaks for the industry throughout the strike, as the head of the railroad.
At the urging of Secretary of War Elihu Root, Morgan comes up with another compromise proposal that provides for arbitration, while giving the industry the right to deny that it is bargaining with the union by directing that each employer and its employees communicate directly with the commission.
The employers agree on the condition that the five members be a military engineer, a mining engineer, a judge, an expert in the coal business, and an "eminent sociologist".
The employers are willing to accept a union leader as the "eminent sociologist," so Roosevelt names E. E. Clark, head of the railway conductors' union, as the "eminent sociologist."
After Catholic leaders exerted pressure, he adds a sixth member, Catholic bishop John Lancaster Spalding, and Commissioner Wright as the seventh member.
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